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Aryani Ong

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#AsianAmerican #AANHPI #Activist. #CivilRights/Liberties. #DEI /Representation. #Anti-Hate. #Democracy. Civic Participation. Community Builder. Asian Americans x National Security: #NotYourForeignInfluence. Chinese #Indonesian American. #Hallyu

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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 8h
What would happen if working women simply stopped showing up? www.instagram.com/p/DeHrIDLPuxU/
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Maria Comstock on Instagram: "Women are vital to the workforce, but still are under attack by this administration. Attacks on equity programs are attacks on women. #pov #womensrights #comedy #america ...
2,215 likes, 12 comments - mariacomstock on October 5, 2026: "Women are vital to the workforce, but still are under attack by this administration. Attacks on equity programs are attacks on women. #pov...
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/06/2026
Justice Jackson is right. This is thankfully the end of the road for President Trump and his allies' unconstitutional attempt to rewrite the 14th Amendment. Birthright citizenship is a settled case — again.
"Of course, the ultimate irony is that for all the talk about the detestable Dred Scott decision, the Government and the principal dissent propose a return to its core tenet. Their bottom line is that, for certain people, being born on American soil will not suffice to confer citizenship. It is that odious conclusion that the Citizenship Clause plainly rejects, as the Court explains. Ante, at 26. I add only that the Fourteenth Amendment's universalist aims should forever be the death knell for this kind of claim-one that seeks to make bloodline the marker of birthright. The America that was reborn from the rubble of the Civil War simply does not countenance that inequitable result. Thankfully, a majority of the Court remembered this today, and has dutifully preserved the most basic animating principle of our Nation's founding-that all human beings are created equal once more." The quote is attributed to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, reaffirming the right to birthright citizenship.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing targeting the @splcenter.org Southern Poverty Law Center. The @myconstitution.bsky.socialConstitutional Accountability Center (CAC) Vice President Praveen Fernandes issued this reaction.
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CAC Release: Attacking SPLC’s Work Leaves All Americans Less Safe | Constitutional Accountability Center
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center, Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) Vice President Praveen Fernandes issued ...
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The House Judiciary Committee has called Bryan Fair, Interim President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, to testify on June 9. 1/3
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#ScottPelley may be among the last corp of reporters trained to investigate facts rigorously. He told it like it was, and exited his way. Remember #60Minutes
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Texas news anchor at FOX34 Lubbock (KJTV / KCBD) will undoubtedly experience “hell hath no fury like [BTS’ Army fan base] scorned” for his on air racism. #BTS #BTSArmy #Oreo
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ARMY Calls Texas News Anchor’s On-Air BTS Oreo Joke ‘Racist’ & ‘Xenophobic’
BTS' ARMY are calling out James Eppler, an anchor at FOX34 in Lubbock, Texas for what they said was a racist, xenophobic joke about band's Oreo collab.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Federal government uses US Postal Service to chip at states’ authority over mail in ballots. The unnecessary and unlawful layer of bureaucracy will create errors with #voting.
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Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
It signaled it plans to send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The significance of the Voting Rights Act to a multiracial democracy, Thomas Zimmer writes. #votingrights #democracy
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Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile
A history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality – Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
#VotingRightsAct
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@democracyforward.org files a lawsuit to protect federal contractors and subcontractors, including colleges, universities, and minority-owned businesses, with loss of contracts, permanent blacklisting, and civil and criminal prosecution if they refuse to abandon lawful #DEI efforts.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
U.S. administration threatened to use military force against #Pope, #Vatican officials feared, according to news media.
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Reports: Pentagon Delivered "Bitter Lecture" to Vatican Ambassador, Warning that the U.S. "Has the Military Power to do Whatever it Wants"
At a closed-door January meeting at the Pentagon, a Defense Department official reportedly invoked the Avignon Papacy, when the French monarchy forced the papacy into exile for nearly seven decades.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
According to this crop scientist and ex farm worker, we are missing half the story on the ICE raids. She says that they are a means to drive undocumented farm workers into the H2A government program, where they are more exploitable by contractors and farmers. www.facebook.com/share/v/17pM...
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Where to donate to family of a baby who was under a blanket of shattered glass in Portland after agents broke window and took parent from car.
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tomorrow virtual call! #MN #AlexPretti #NicoleGood
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans now issues a weekly rundown of bills on the Hlll. @ncapa.bsky.social
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Week of 1/20: NCAPA State of Play
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Applaud the 200 former #DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys who publicly stood by the #civilrights mission of the country’s law firm and named the current administration’s destruction of those principles.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Live from Busboys and Poets – 14th & V: Join Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hasan, and Olufemi Taiwo for a dynamic panel discussion on the urgent need to build platforms that serve the people when institutions refuse—or fail—to do so. www.youtube.com/live/dGvsCVV...
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Pivoting to the People: Karen Attiah, Mehdi Hasan & Olufemi Taiwo in Conversation @Busboys and Poets
YouTube video by Busboys and Poets
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov #ACA #governmentshutdown
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Over 1.5 million #AsianAmericans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders receive health care through the #AffordableCareAct Marketplace. @capac.house.gov 1/4
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/dFXL86Kz
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Take the red pill. Unplug from the #Matrix. Save #America. #NoKings
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
#Artists are defying authoritarianism at an event called #FallofFreedom on November 21-22, and inviting the public to create their own events and register them on a map. Learn more at www.falloffreedom.com
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
When the U.S. betrays its closest ally #canada #tarriffs
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@jaketapper.bsky.social explains why nearly all the #reporters at the #Pentagon walked out at www.facebook.com/share/v/1FJt...?
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A day in the life of America on October 18. #NoKings www.instagram.com/reel/DK60PE_...?
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Our national security relies on truth and transparency. @aclu.org @aajaofficial.bsky.social @rightsdissent.bsky.social @capac.house.gov
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Call for photographers to continue the legacy of documenting the #AsianAmerican experience.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The Sikh Coalition @sikhcoalition.bsky.social issued a statement depicting the mistreatment of Bibi Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old grandmother, by ICE. Arrested at her annual check-in, Kaur was flown across country, refused basic accommodations and deported. www.sikhcoalition.org/blog/2025/up...
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Update on Bibi Harjit Kaur
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
DOJ reduced the # of attorneys working on corruption from 36 to 2. #anti-corruption www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...
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The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two.
The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration’s attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Brief explanation on the way that the firing of #JimmyKimmel is corporate censorship based on anticipatory fear that an administration that is displeased with a comedians’ speech will regulate the the parent media company.
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nytopinion on Instagram: "After ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, many called it censorship. As the journalist @mollyjongfast explains, it is cen…"
After ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, many called it censorship. As the journalist @mollyjongfast explains, it is censorship, but not the kind you might think. | 🎥 @stephanieshen18, Emily Holzknecht, and Marina King #nytopinion
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Hear #Epstein survivors so they don’t have to speak up again.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“The U.S. #Constitution gives the states the primary authority to regulate #elections, while empowering #Congress to “at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.”” #votingrights #fairelections
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Liberal Resistance @liberalresistance.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Resistance Calendar. Updated 9/2/25. Blackout The System: BlackoutTheSystem.com Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com Quackograms to encourage reps to impeach RFK Jr.: StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams No Kings 2: NoKings.org General Strike: GeneralStrikeUS.com
Resistance Calendar.
Updated September 2nd, 2025.

September 16th to 20th, Blackout The System.
BlackoutTheSystem.com

September 17th, Constitution Day.
If you can only commit to one blackout day choose the 17th.

September: Boycott amazon, Uber, Pepsi Co.
Boycotts via ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com

September: Stand Up For Science “Quackograms.”
StandUpForScience.net/quack-o-grams

October 18th, No Kings 2.
NoKings.org

General Strike.
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called when 11 million people commit.

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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
#NoKings
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Federal lawsuit against all 25 federal #judges in Maryland dropped. #judiciary save the #courts @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @Keep OurRepublic
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The DOJ sued the federal district bench in Maryland. A judge just dismissed the case
A district judge in Virginia was specially tapped to oversee the unusual case after DOJ named all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland as defendants in a lawsuit related to deportations.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A 99-year-old #JapaneseAmerican incarceree, Tak Hoshizaki, spoke out at the #NeverAgain rally in LIttle Tokyo in Los Angeles against ICE, mass detention and the erasure of Asian American history. Courtesy: @rtajimapena.bsky.social www.facebook.com
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
3 suicides of 12 total deaths in ICE detention centers. Conditions, lack of interpretation among general concerns. @theintercept.com reports on the first suicide in the Northeast US at 2025/08/07/ice-detained-suicide-pennsylvania-geo-group/?
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The 2024 Hate Crimes Statistics Act Report shows still alarming levels of hate crimes directed against Black Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans and religious minorities. Yet Department of Justice has terminated more than 50 hate crime prevention initiatives. @splcenter.org #nohate
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SPLC Calls for Legislation to Increase Hate Crime Reporting
The data in the FBI 2024 Hate Crimes Report showed the second-highest reported number of hate crime incidents ever.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We strengthen the #economy by facing the truth, and finding solutions, not shooting the messenger. But 47 fires the Head of Bureau of Labor Statistics #ErikcaMcEnterfer after poor jobs report. Demand #accountability! #NoGaslighting #Indivisible
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Trump blames bad jobs numbers on government official
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kritikalthinka.bsky.social @kritikalthinka.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Read "Korean Scientist With Green Card Detained for a Week and Denied Access to His Lawyer" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-5UjQZwZy/M...
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Korean Scientist With Green Card Detained for a Week and Denied Access to His Lawyer (Common Dreams)
A permanent U.S. resident has been held in detention for the last week without apparent explanation and without access to legal representation, The Washingto...
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 31/07/2025
ICE is blocking members of Congress from scrutinizing conditions in detention facilities. This stonewalling is not only illegal — it’s a brazen attempt to shield abuse. We’re representing 12 members of Congress in their lawsuit against this policy. americanoversight.org/members-of-c...
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Members of Congress Sue Trump-Vance Administration for Blocking Lawful Oversight of Federal Immigration Detention Facilities - American Oversight
The Trump-Vance administration has blocked members of Congress from inspecting ICE facilities, in violation of federal law.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 29/07/2025
BREAKING: We, alongside the @nwlc.org, are suing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for its flagrant discrimination of transgender workers. We will always defend the rights of the LGBTQI+ community in court.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Pastor #DanielFuentesEspinal, a 24-year U.S. resident, has no criminal record. He’s known in Easton, MD, for providing food, shelter, clothing, emergency funds and emotional support to its most vulnerable residents.” Detained by #ICE, he now needs support. #FreePastorFuentes #MDIndivisible
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Let’s not forget: Women were harmed in the making of the #Epstein files. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#NoKings rallies across America
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What a desperate ploy by 47 to incite the memory of the LA riots after the Rodney King beating. Koreatown was burned down and looted, forcing Korean business owners to protect their property. CAPAC @capac.house.gov is spot on. AAPIs will not be used to justify violence or pitted v other immigrants.
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Aryani Ong @aryaniong.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The 3 congressional caucus chairs - the Black, Latino, Asian American caucuses - hold a joint press conference on the #LosAngeles situation. @capac.house.gov @congressionalblackcaucus @hispaniccaucus.bsky.social
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Tri-Caucus Chairs to Hold Press Conference
YouTube video by Congressional Black Caucus
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Carrie A Lee @carriealee.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
OK, I know more about the CA case and we have more information on the deployments coming out, so a few thoughts. 1. This is a massive overreach of POTUS authority. Using Section 12406 to federalize/deploy military forces w/out also invoking the Insurrection Act is literally unprecedented. 1/
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